The DOJ and the FBI rolled out a series of reforms today intended to fortify procedures for seeking approval of intelligence-related surveillance of elected officials and campaign staff
reviewing the FBI’s handling of a probe into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
Although Horowitz found that political bias did not influence the bureau’s actions during the investigation, he did identify various inaccuracies and omissions by FBI officials in requests for court-ordered surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. But in a review of the more than 200 errors in FISA Court applications flagged by Horowitz’s office, the Justice Department and the FBI concluded that only two of those were “material,”Still, Wray said in a statement Tuesday that Horowitz’s report “describes conduct that was unacceptable and unrepresentative of the FBI as an organization.
Barr lamented the president’s treatment by federal law enforcement officials in his own statement. “What happened to the Trump presidential campaign and his subsequent Administration after the President was duly elected by the American people must never happen again,” he said.
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